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Subject(s)

• Commercial products [Browse]
• International trade [Browse]
• International economic integration [Browse]
• Economic anthropology [Browse]

Author

• Stubbs, Jean, 1946- [Browse]
• Clarence-Smith, W. G., 1948- [Browse]
• Vos, Jelmer [Browse]

Summary note

"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis. This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of its 31 chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: key approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. Taken together, the Oxford Handbook of Commodities History offers insight into the directions in which commodities history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780197502679 (hardcover)
• 0197502679 (hardcover)

LCCN

2023017665

OCLC

1382629922

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